Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde | |
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Battle information | |
Release date | November 17, 2014 |
Number | 47 |
Views | 53M |
Length | 3:07 |
Timeline | |
Previous | Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters (Season 4 premiere) |
Next | Zeus vs Thor |
Beat Information | |
Beat(s) | Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde |
BPM | 82 |
Beat producer(s) | Jesse Cale |
Other information | |
Actors | Nice Peter EpicLLOYD Hannah Hart Grace Helbig |
Rappers | |
Location(s) | The Mineola Bank The Capulet Mansion courtyard |
Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde is the forty-seventh installment of Epic Rap Battles of History and the second episode of Season 4. It features Shakespearean star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet, rapping against the infamous criminal couple, Bonnie & Clyde. It was released on November 17th, 2014.
Cast
Romeo & Juliet
Grace Helbig as Juliet Capulet
Bonnie & Clyde
Lyrics
[Note: Clyde is in brown, Bonnie is in dark yellow, Romeo is in blue, and Juliet is in light blue. If both members of the couple are rapping, it will appear in regular text.]
Bonnie and Clyde:
I'll handle this, darling. I'm known to fire off some BARs,
'Cause if these lovers cross me, they're gonna end up seeing stars!
I mean, I'll let you go first, but damn sure I'm gettin' licks in
On this hissy-fittin' rich kid and this prepubescent vixen!
I'm sick of them! Let's beat 'em then, and we can rob 'em blind!
I'll stick this punk up from the front. I'll take this broad from behind,
And pop a cap in the ass of the last Capulet heiress!
Give Miss No-Nights-in-Paris a reason to cry to her parents!
Oh! Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore you tryin' to flow, yo?
Mofo, you soft as a froyo! Are those the drapes or your clothes, bro?
(Ooh!) There's gonna be a tragedy!
Make you ache like your balls on the balcony!
Barrow Gang put their money where their mouth is!
Spit sick like a plague on both your houses!
Romeo and Juliet:
My love, your face is beauty to behold.
I will protect thine honor from these dust bowl dildos!
A moment's break from your gaze is an eternity past,
So together, we shall both put these bitches on blast!
En garde, thou artless beetle-headed flax wench!
The only insult you have thrust upon me is thine stench!
Why don't you twist upon these nuts? I hear you're good with a wrench!
The dismal state of your raps should be a federal offense!
(Haha!) And you there, wench with the neck of a chicken,
You'll get an ass-rippin' worse than your boyfriend's in prison!
You're not a true romance. You're just a conjugal visit.
Oh, but that's not even your real husband now, is it?
Clyde Barrow:
Hey, partner. You best put a muzzle on your missus,
'Fore I teach her how we handle disrespect down in Texas!
Romeo Montague:
Do you quarrel, sir? Ho, shall I draw my long sword?
Or will you duck your chicken-shit ass back into your Ford?
Bonnie Parker:
How could you beat my man in some mano a mano?
You can't protect your best friend from some John Leguizamo!
Romeo and Juliet:
No, no, my Romeo will beat your beau in contest blow for blow.
He will do upon thine dick what you hath done upon your toe!
[Bonnie shoots Juliet.]
Oh, I am killed! What irony is this?
The lead role shot down by a failed actress…
Then I shall kill myself! On my stomach I shall lie,
So you louts can lick my ass! Thus, with a dis, I die…
Oops, never mind. My flesh was merely grazed.
Where's Romeo? Oh Nomeo! There's poison on your face!
Oh, happy dagger, pierce me true. Persuade my breath to stop!
Sheathe yourself inside my heart, and like the beat, I drop…
Bonnie and Clyde:
Well, that was tragic. That did not go as expected.
Woulda done that boy some good to just wait a couple seconds.
It's kinda sad though, really, so young, to have just died.
Well, at least we got each other. Just Bonnie, and—
[Bonnie and Clyde are gunned down.]
Poll
Trivia
General
- This is the first team battle with each team consisting of one man and one woman.
- This is the first time the rappers are the creation of a previous rapper.
- However, the Cat in the Hat and Things 1 & 2 were created by Dr. Seuss, and they all appeared in the same battle.
- Coincidentally, the opponent they faced was the author of Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare.
- However, the Cat in the Hat and Things 1 & 2 were created by Dr. Seuss, and they all appeared in the same battle.
- This is the first team battle where two rappers played by Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD are not on the same side.
- The beat for this battle, created by Jesse Cale, was originally going to be used for Blackbeard vs Al Capone.
- The "More Battles" section in the end slate shows Jack the Ripper for a short moment during the reel.
- This is the third battle to reveal characters of an upcoming battle in an end slate.
- On August 22, 2016, "Season 5.5! Season 5.5! Wherefore art thou Season 5.5?" was written in the description of the video. This is a reference to Juliet Capulet's quote from the play, "O Romeo! O Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- The quote was then changed to, "Season 5.5! Season 5.5! Wherefore art thou Season 5.5? Back soon!", before the release of Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton.
- This is actually an error. Even though it's a common misconception that 'wherefore' used to mean 'where', it actually used to mean 'why' (just like we say 'therefore' not to mean 'there', but as a response to 'why' or 'wherefore'). This means that 'wherefore art thou Romeo' actually meant 'why are you Romeo', and that 'wherefore art thou Season 5.5' actually means 'why are you Season 5.5'.
Continuity
- This is the second battle to feature a married couple, after Master Chief vs Leonidas.
- This is the first time a married couple has rapped together as a team in a battle.
- This is the fifth team battle, after Mario Bros vs Wright Bros, Batman vs Sherlock Holmes, Artists vs TMNT, and Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters.
- This is also the third team battle in a row.
- This is the third time a woman has rapped against a man, after Adam vs Eve and Ghostbusters vs Mythbusters.
- This is the fourth battle in which the characters do not dance during the "Who won? Who's next? You decide!" sequence, after John Lennon vs Bill O'Reilly, Bruce Lee vs Clint Eastwood, and Moses vs Santa Claus.
- This is the first battle where neither rapper nor location appear during the sequence.
- This is also the second battle to have a blank "Who won? Who's next? You decide!" sequence.
- This is the first battle where neither rapper nor location appear during the sequence.
- This is the fourth battle in which a rapper dies, after Billy Mays vs Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates, and Hitler vs Vader 3.
- It is the fifth if you count the Tenth Doctor regenerating into the Fourth Doctor.
- This is the first battle to end with all characters dead.
- This is also the first battle to have a rapper commit suicide.
- This is the first battle to end with all characters dead.
- It is the fifth if you count the Tenth Doctor regenerating into the Fourth Doctor.
- This is the second battle to have the final line cut off, after Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge.
- This is the third battle to have a rapper's final line cut off, after Hitler vs Vader 3 and Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge.
- However, the announcer finished Ebenezer Scrooge's line for him, while Bonnie and Clyde's line was never finished, and the announcer instead picked up awkwardly.
- This is the third battle to have a rapper's final line cut off, after Hitler vs Vader 3 and Donald Trump vs Ebenezer Scrooge.
Production
- A demo of the battle, featuring Peter and Lloyd as all four rappers, was released on the ERB Patreon[1] before its appearance on the digital release of the Season 4 CD.
- Clyde Barrow wore the same exact hat as The Fourth Doctor
Errors
- When Romeo says, "En garde!", the subtitles spell it incorrectly as "En guard!"
- During Bonnie's third verse, if she was trying to say it in Spanish accent, the subtitles spell the "a" in "Mano a mano" incorrectly.
- When Bonnie Parker shoots Juliet, Juliet covers the "wound" lower than where Bonnie aimed the gun.
- During Juliet's final verse, the verb "sheathe" is spelled incorrectly in the subtitles, but is spoken correctly.
- Romeo had fallen backwards after poisoning himself, but was seen laying on his front when Juliet got up. Alternatively, Juliet had fallen forward after stabbing herself, but was seen lying on her back in the shot after.
- During Clyde's final verse, the subtitles say "to just to wait a couple seconds" instead of "to just wait a couple seconds."